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John Latham

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Sir John Greig Latham (1877 to 1964) was an Australian lawyer and politician who served as the fifth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1935 to 1952. He had earlier been Attorney-General under Prime Ministers Stanley Bruce and Joseph Lyons and served as Leader of the Opposition from 1929 to 1931 as the last leader of the Nationalist Party.

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  • Wikipedia lead paragraph
    politician, and judge who served as the fifth Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1935 to 1952.
  • In Legal System: Australian Law, Wikipedia lead sentence
    was an Australian lawyer
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Wikidata: John Latham
  • Wikidata Q364253 self-citation (QID resolved for a previously unsourced jurist)
    P31 (instance of): human; QID resolved and verified for this jurist (John Latham)
  • Member Of: High Court of Australia, Wikipedia category: Justices of the High Court of Australia
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